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Last week we applauded the victory for free speech at the University of Delaware in which a U.S. District Court ruled in favor of the free speech rights of student Maciej Murakowski. (Murakowski had been unjustly banned from the UD campus on the basis of the content of his website.) Among the mentions of the ruling in the regional and higher education press, Adam’s coverage was noted in UCLA Professor Eugene Volokh’s influential Volokh Conspiracy law blog.

Yesterday, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Sam wrote a thoughtful piece reminding us of, in her words, "the importance of the freedoms that make this country what it is," and pointing out the all-too-many instances in the wake of 9/11 when those freedoms were brusquely pushed aside by our universities. Her post has gotten some nice mention on the blogs, and was plugged today on the widely read Phi Beta Cons blog. As evidenced by the latest incident at San Francisco State University, the complexities and emotions of 9/11—even seven years later—continue to roil campuses nationwide.